What is the effect of 19 years of restoration managements on soil and vegetation on formerly improved upland grassland?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00027006%3A_____%2F21%3A10149604" target="_blank" >RIV/00027006:_____/21:10149604 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41330/21:85650

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720359982/pdfft?md5=2c570d305da2693aebabde161a17c2a2&pid=1-s2.0-S0048969720359982-main.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720359982/pdfft?md5=2c570d305da2693aebabde161a17c2a2&pid=1-s2.0-S0048969720359982-main.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142469" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142469</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

What is the effect of 19 years of restoration managements on soil and vegetation on formerly improved upland grassland?

Original language description

Finding the best management strategies to restore grassland diversity and achieve a compromise between agricultural use and biodiversity protection is a global challenge. This paper reports novel data relating to the impacts of 19 years of restoration managements predicted to increase botanical diversity within reseeded upland temperate grassland common in less favoured areas in Europe. The treatments imposed were: continuous sheep grazing, with and without lime application; hay cutting only, with and without lime application; hay cutting followed by aftermath grazing, with and without lime application; and a control treatment continuing the previous site management (liming, NPK application and continuous sheep grazing). Defoliation type, irrespective of liming, was the key driver influencing plant species diversity (hay cutting followed by aftermath grazing &gt; hay cutting &gt; grazing). Grazing only managements supported grasses at the expense of forbs, and thus related plant species diversity significantly declined. Limed treatments had higher concentrations of Ca and Mg in the soil compared to those receiving no lime. However, no effects on species richness or plant species composition were found. Potassium was the only element whose plant-available concentration in the soil tended to decrease in response to cutting treatments with herbage removal. Postponing the first defoliation to the middle of the growing season enables forbs to reach seed production, and this was the most effective restoration management option for upland grassland (as hay cutting only, and as hay cut followed by aftermath grazing). Although continuous low-density sheep grazing is often adopted as a means of improving floristic biodiversity, deleterious effects of this on plant diversity mean that it cannot be recommended as a means of long-term maintenance or restoration management of European temperate grasslands. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40106 - Agronomy, plant breeding and plant protection; (Agricultural biotechnology to be 4.4)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

ISSN

0048-9697

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

755

Issue of the periodical within the volume

part 2

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

142469

UT code for WoS article

000600786700007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85092713918